THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
90
If the Digital Revolution
lasts only as long as the
Industrial Revolution
then we have around 45
years left
80
NUMBER OF YEARS
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60
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40
30
20
10
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Industrial Revolution
(1760 - 1840)
Digital Revolution
(1980 - present)

IBM says we’ll have 30bn sensors connecting everything with everyone by
2017. By 2030 we’ll have 100 trillion sensors connecting all of us in one vast
neural network
Jeffrey Rifkin, author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society

The Apple Watch is very
personal—“personal” and
“intimate” were words that
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his
colleagues used over and
over again when presenting
it to the public for the first
time. That’s where the watch
is likely to change things,
because it does something
computers aren’t generally
supposed to: It lives on your
body

My bloodwork was
analysed looking at 16
different biomarkers.
The results data was
then uploaded to
InsideTracker where I
was able to track each
biomarker alongside
the optimal level.
Deficient in Vitamin
B12, Vitamin D, Iron
and my Total
Cholesterol level is too
high

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“Data is driving change in the
healthcare industry. In the hands of
those who know how to use it, data
brings advances in personalized and
predictive medicine, significant cost
savings, and research that points to
entirely new products and markets.
TIM O’REILLY

For a year, they have been teaching Watson oncology. The system has been fed 2
million pages of text from 42 medical journals and clinical trials relevant to
oncology.
In addition, Watson has consumed 18,000 historical cases including medical
records, patient outcomes, and physician's notes. Using natural language
processing, Watson is capable of reviewing 1.5 million patient records in seconds.
It does not stop there. Watson continues to learn as it’s fed new information. With
every case and every new study that Watson learns, it modifies its
recommendations.

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Brain implants are
where laser eye surgery
was several decades
ago. They are not risk
free and make sense
only for a narrowly
defined set of patients
but they’re a sign of
things to come.
Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology, NYU

Many human augmentation
technologies will be invented in the
coming decades that will enable
humans to experience an enhanced
physicality. Powered exoskeletons
will increase running efficiency,
speed and reduce musculoskeletal
stress; aquatic exoskeletons will
augment swimming endurance and
speed; and spider suits will enable
enhanced abilities to climb smooth
vertical walls. Comparable to the
connection between the invention of
the bicycle and the sport of cycling,
such new augmentation technologies
will naturally result in new sports
being practiced – power running,
power swimming, power climbing…